Clare Mackintosh

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In this interview, I chat with Clare Mackintosh about I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This, how grief changes your identity, structuring this memoir, how her titles and cover came about, the differences and similarities in writing crime fiction and a memoir, and much more.

Clare's recommended reads are:

A Manual for Heartache by Cathy Rentzenbrink
The Madness of Grief by Richard Coles
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Mai Messina

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With over two million copies of her books sold worldwide, number one bestseller Clare Mackintosh is the multi-award-winning author of I Let You Go, which was a New York Times bestseller and the fastest-selling title by a new UK crime writer in 2015. Clare's subsequent novels, I See You and Let Me Lie, were number one bestsellers. After the End was published in 2019 and became an instant Sunday Times bestseller, and in 2021 Hostage flew straight into the top ten. This year sees the launch of The Last Party, the first in the DC Ffion Morgan crime series, and another instant bestseller. Together, her books have been translated into forty languages and spent more than sixty weeks in The Sunday Times bestseller list.